Sometimes it’s easy to determine to why a bad team is bad. For instance, the 2020 Phillies had a historically bad bullpen that kept an otherwise decent team from making the playoffs. But it’s harder to identify exactly why the 2022 Phillies are so bad. Yes, the manager isn’t adding any value, the defense is weak, and the bullpen has some glaring deficiencies, but you can’t really point to any one area and proclaim, “THIS is the problem.” The Phillies are just a team that finds ways to lose baseball games. And that’s exactly what they did on Tuesday night when they dropped their fifth straight game, 7-4 to the San Francisco Giants.
...Different day: Giants 7, Phillies 4
